I approach my practice as an observer, attuned to the subtle shifts between how we appear, how we are perceived, and how we perceive ourselves. My work explores how identity is mediated through digital systems and social structures, and how these forces shape the way we see ourselves and one another. It is for those who continually question their reflection, and who suspect that perception has shaped them in ways they can no longer clearly trace.

 

Earlier in my practice, I worked extensively with AI and language models in installation pieces and film, using them as doppelgänger to examine how online platforms categorise, archive and repackage identity. That phase helped me understand digital space as both a site of control and a field for transformation; however, growing ethical concerns have led me to step away from using AI tools directly. I hope to maintain a critical engagement with their cultural impact, while also exploring other sources of impact from digital culture. For example, in my current curatorial research, I look at the digital platforms as a kind of “double archive” defined by its capacity to document and be a lived experience all at once; an ongoing and alive record of our selfhood and our performance. 

 

I aim to reintegrate these themes and explore them through a renewed artistic practice primarily through painting, drawing and printmaking. The pieces will often depict figurative registers/portraits and draw on personal digital archive material (photos, texts, etc.). These two-dimensional mediums will over a slowed, resistant, utterly ambiguous surface, complicated by a visual language deliberately manipulated, by testing material boundaries to echo the equally resistant, utterly ambiguous surface of (digital) life. Alongside this studio practice, I will develop essay-films to weave together the documentation of the process of making, my more intimate reflections on the subject of the work, and the theoretical background that influences it. This combination of practices will echo the double archive, as an experiment in moving between critical reflection and an embodied, sensorial experience. 

 

This combination is to be informed by artists who entwine the instability of their selfhood through mediation and re-fictioning, at times with the help of the archive, resonating with my interest in identity as a form of poetic embodiment that is constantly written and rewritten.

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Working within and alongside these influences, I am drawn to the circumstances in which people reveal the contradictions, absurdity and brilliance of existing.  My work will continue to sit in that tension, creating space for both critique and contemplation, leaving questions not just about how one is seen, but about how one sees themselves.